Chasing the Phoenix

Unhinged, beautiful, strong, and tragic male lead X woman condemned by fate A competitive journey starring two unhinged characters * The Crown Prince plotted to usurp the throne, and on the day of his execution, snow fell thick and fast. The powerful Li clan was implicated, and the entire family was exiled to Mingyue Tower, a barren wasteland where not a blade of grass grew. The Li clan members wept bitterly and cursed the disgraced Crown Prince's family, who were traveling with them. Only Li Zhi remained silent. The journey into exile was unbearably harsh. Every day, Li Zhi saved a little of her food and supplies and secretly gave them to the orphaned son of the disgraced Crown Prince, whose illness was growing worse. As the rumors described him, the boy was pure and upright, gentle and courteous, with his father's bearing. One day, Li Zhi dropped a personal belonging and turned back to retrieve it. The cold moon shone bright, and frost covered the ground. The boy was strikingly handsome, his skin glowing like jade. Expressionless, he watched several wild dogs fight. In their snapping jaws was the steamed bun she had just given him. * A battle at Mingyue Tower that shocked the world revealed that the Crown Prince, renowned for his wisdom and virtue, had a surviving bloodline. Several years later, the emperor cleared the Crown Prince's name and ordered his grandson to take the throne. The great clans coveted the position of empress. They submitted one memorial after another requesting that a woman be crowned, but received no reply. While the people below fought until they were battered and bleeding, the new emperor leaned against the railing and sampled lychees. * On the night of the imperial wedding, a cold hand touched Li Zhi's cheek. The new emperor whispered gently in her ear: "Take me to paradise, or come with me to hell." - Please add my new novel, Fox Crossing, to your reading list In the capital of Great Wei, humans and demons lived side by side in a prosperous, flourishing city. The Spirit Reconciliation Bureau oversaw the nonhuman races throughout the realm, hunted down wicked demons, and judged disputes between humans and demons. Though Bureau Chief Wu Xiaohan was human, his methods were more ruthless than those of monsters and demons. On the day an army entered the capital with strange and wondrous demons gathered for the Thousand Autumns Banquet, Wu Xiaohan rode alone at the head of tens of thousands of Wei soldiers. Not a soul dared take another step forward. Tan Ning, inside the cage: ...Isn't that the nine-tailed fox who once saved me? Everyone knew that medicinal beasts could identify every kind of herb, but few knew that the heart of a medicinal beast could also dispel illusions. In other people's eyes, he was a human prodigy, cruel and heartless, with a serpent's fangs and a wasp's sting, more like a demon than a man. In Tan Ning's eyes, his nine tails were wonderfully soft to touch. After swallowing the heart of a medicinal beast, Tan Ning successfully passed the Spirit Reconciliation Bureau's inspection and stayed on as an envoy of the demons. To make sure she had recognized the fox who saved her, she decided to test him: "Chief Wu, may I ask you something?" The fox corrected her with a cold expression: "Call me Master." "Master, did you go to Xueji Valley ten years ago?" Wu Xiaohan flatly denied it, but the nine-tailed fox in Tan Ning's eyes pricked up his ears warily. Tan Ning: My benefactor fox must have a good reason for hiding his identity. I'll help him through this in secret. The Longzhi had three great regrets in his life. His first was being born with nine heads. His second was having scarlet fur, worlds apart from the pure, snow-white coat of the sacred Celestial Fox. Countless times, he had stared into the water, and countless times, he had shattered the ugly, terrifying fox reflection staring back at him. After becoming Wu Xiaohan, he made sure not a trace of red ever appeared on him. Yet the new demon envoy wore flashy red clothes every day, and was so capable that in no time at all, everyone in the Spirit Reconciliation Bureau was singing her praises. "Wu Xiaohan, when you blink, it looks like butterflies are flying." "Wu Xiaohan, the snow in Xueji Valley never melts, and not a speck of dust can stain it. Just like your skin." At first, he thought she was just an ordinary flatterer. But later, he saw her pluck the first red leaf of early autumn for him, rush into a raging fire for him without regard for her life, and even expose her identity as a human in the process. "Wu Xiaohan, you look so handsome when you smile." He still turned away with an expressionless face, pretending not to hear the heartbeat that had lost its steady rhythm. Until one day, he learned that when the Celestial Fox was ambushed outside Xueji Valley ten years ago, he had been reduced to nine tails because he had sacrificed a century of cultivation to save a blind girl. Only then did he realize that the kindness he had received had been stolen from someone else. From then on, he had a third regret. #A human pretending to be a demon, a demon pretending to be human# #A little mystery-solving# Theme: There is always a way through, no matter how desperate things seem.